[xep-announce] RenderX announces the release of VDPMill 4.0

[Michael Sulyaev]

Dear List Subscribers,

RenderX (http://www.renderx.com) has released VDPMill 4.0 
(http://www.renderx.com/tools/vdpmill.html) – a new version of the 
high-performance rendering application. VDPMill is a complete solution 
that can generate very large batch print files - hundreds of thousands 
of pages in a single file. Through the use of a multi-threaded 
formatting grid for documents, the components of this print file can be 
formatted simultaneously to meet any performance demands. VDPMill 
supports output in any RenderX XEP format including PDF, PostScript, 
AFP, XPS, PPML, SVG and HTML.

The main emphasis of this release is to facilitate the use of various 
data sources, such as databases, Web services, or flat files, with 
VDPMill. Therefore, this major release includes XML generators support 
in VDPMill Ticket/Interactive applications. In VDPMill terms, an XML 
generator is an executable file that takes the input data file and 
output XML file, runs modally, and returns the success or failure value 
to VDPMill. The generated XML file becomes an input file for VDPMill 
Ticket and VDPMill Interactive applications.

For details on how to use VDPMill and XML generators, please refer to 
the VDPMill User Guide:
  - PDF:  http://www.renderx.com/files/VDPMillUserGuide.pdf
  - HTML: http://www.renderx.com/vdpmill_reference.html

RenderX VDPMill and VisualXSL and Altova MapForce 2011 can be used in a 
database reporting workflow, which can be successfully used in all 
industries where customers are billed or statements are delivered on a 
periodic basis, such as banking, investment, utilities, 
telecommunications, etc.

The short description and instructions how you can use Altova MapForce 
and RenderX VisualXSL and VDPMill are available at 
http://www.renderx.com/solutions/reports.html#MapForce.

A command-line driver for MapForce, pre-configured as XML generator, is 
available for download at
http://www.renderx.com/files/tools/mapforcecmd.zip.

Other improvements of this release are:
  - Embedded EnMasse 2.3 (http://www.renderx.com/tools/enmasse.html) 
bug-fixing release
  - XEP 4.19 (http://www.renderx.com/tools/xep.html) compatibility
  - Full error messages in VDPMill Interactive GUI application


Regards,
Michael Sulyaev
RenderX